A FIVE-DAY trip to Germany by Argyll and Bute Council employees – at a cost of £2,500 – has been dismissed as a ‘jolly’ by one councillor.
Councillor Aileen Morton defended the council’s £2,500 fact-finding trip to Germany.
Late last month an eight-strong delegation, including councillor Aileen Morton, policy lead for sustainable economic growth, along with three council officers and four local business people, travelled to Amberg-Sulzbach in Bavaria, a region successful in curbing a rural exodus, to look at ways to tackle Argyll and Bute’s depopulation problem.